Summary: In attempting to translate a hypertext web presentation into publication format for a traditional print text, Landlow processes the metaphor of hypertext writing as a collage. He argues that this framework that invites us to recognize hypertext "as a mode that both emphasizes and bridges gaps, and that thereby inevitably becomes an art of assemblage in which appropriation and catechresis [a word or phrase applied outside conventional meaning] rule" (170). Like collage, hypertext often includes appropriating materials and supplementing them as context seems to demand.
Commentary: I appreciated Landlow's point that hypertext is better described as multisequential or multilinear rather than simply nonlinear. A path remains, but self-determined rather than universal (154). He also argues that beyond simply employing links, hypertext that realizes its full potential provides the reader with increased power and multivocality.
From The Digital Dialectic (MIT Press, 1999)
By George Landlow (Victorian Web founder!?)
Summary:
In attempting to translate a hypertext web presentation into publication format for a traditional print text, Landlow processes the metaphor of hypertext writing as a collage. He argues that this framework that invites us to recognize hypertext "as a mode that both emphasizes and bridges gaps, and that thereby inevitably becomes an art of assemblage in which appropriation and catechresis [a word or phrase applied outside conventional meaning] rule" (170).
Like collage, hypertext often includes appropriating materials and supplementing them as context seems to demand.
Commentary:
I appreciated Landlow's point that hypertext is better described as multisequential or multilinear rather than simply nonlinear. A path remains, but self-determined rather than universal (154). He also argues that beyond simply employing links, hypertext that realizes its full potential provides the reader with increased power and multivocality.
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